I am so happy to hear from Disc, Debbe, Susie, and Sally on your interpretation of this latest thing and your commenseration (sp) of my findings. You know... you have something like this, you don't want it to be anything bad, but you do want it to be something treatable. Then to hear that they just can't find anything!! Damn it, my leg hurts, sometimes when I'm just laying down (when I've been up for a while) and always when I'm trying to walk using the walker. One day earlier in the week, a Physical Therapist came in, and he got me to talking about *what was going on in my life*. He didn't come out and say that it was psychosymatic (sp) but gently got onto the subject. He said he knew the pain was real and he felt that I was going to need some physical therapy to get over it. I've got to try to find his cell number (he wrote it on a napkin) and see what he would recommend me to do, since my doctor failed to go down that route. I've been so out of it with depression I haven't even thought of him until just now. I haven't been back to work --- how can I? (but have been doing work things on the computer today and yesterday). I was really cheered to learn that Debbei works from home. It's such a novel concept to me, it's hard to get my thoughts around it.
On Monday, I'll have to call the internal med doctor again (it's a she)... there was some things on my blood report that she needs to address and one of them, being a high potassium reading, is what might have set her off on the "stroke" thing. That's what the nerve doctor said about that; I've never even heard of having high potassium, low - yes. Due to the telephone call, we didn't finish our visit. When she made that call, I got this mental image of a little ferocious bulldog being in my corner and that's how I'll always picture her (she's a young, knowledgeable new doctor - Chinese by birth). I do remember my surgeon saying they would send her copies of everything done. (they'd better or I'll sic her again, haha)
On Monday, I'll have to call the internal med doctor again (it's a she)... there was some things on my blood report that she needs to address and one of them, being a high potassium reading, is what might have set her off on the "stroke" thing. That's what the nerve doctor said about that; I've never even heard of having high potassium, low - yes. Due to the telephone call, we didn't finish our visit. When she made that call, I got this mental image of a little ferocious bulldog being in my corner and that's how I'll always picture her (she's a young, knowledgeable new doctor - Chinese by birth). I do remember my surgeon saying they would send her copies of everything done. (they'd better or I'll sic her again, haha)
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